[Jack_Spade]

For two months 

[SgtBoomCloud]

Jack, I'm going to assume you meant Armstrong and not Krestov in your post...seeing as Armstrong is the fixer and Krestov's specialty is not setting up jobs

[Jack_Spade]

Oh, yeah, sorry
is corrected

[SgtBoomCloud]

So, I totally spaced about the gyrojet pistols and the scuba gear.  Permission to get stats for those or at least where to look them up?

[Jack_Spade]

Sure:

Run&Gun page 27 and 80 (Diving Armor)

[Volker]

@GM: I have a seriously important question about the Wrapper program.
The RB says that "your icons can be anything you want them to be". Does "your icons" mean

• Only those programs that are actually running on the deck
• All that are enslaved to me
• All I choose to

I always thought it to be a) (which is the reason I never acquired it), but your posts seem to indicate you play it as c).
If it's not c), please allow me to alter my post. If a) is your choice, then I will leave it basically the way it is, but advice anyone to turn off any device as long as possible. Non-lethal devices can be enslaved to your commlink and thus will be invisible if no one takes too close a look. Thus most devices can still be turned on.
If it's b) I will have to redo the whole list.

[Jack_Spade]

B seems a good compromise. I would also accept C with the caveat that the icon will stay that way until the device has to reboot.

[Volker]

Just tell me. You're God, and you're GOD. I just have to know as it makes a BIG difference. In C, whe can bring whatever we want. Strange enough, my 210.000 nuyen deck can only provide half as much protection as a simple Transys for 5k or so does. Thus, b would mean that I can only hide 9 pieces of gear.

Honestly, C seems a little strange to me. I'd welcome it, but it's hard to wrap my head around the idea that "your icons" actually means "any icons you want".

If b, what will happen if I reboot?

[Jack_Spade]

Ok, that's how I imagine it works:
There is a hardcoded file on every device and cyberprogram that displays and identifies it on the matrix. You can't really change that without making the device stop working.
The wrapper program changes the icon by creating a virtual master to which the device is slaved and that is displayed in the matrix. A closer look shows that it's not one icon, but two, nested in each other.

Now you ask me: Are those virtual icons run on your deck as part of the slave-master relationship  or on the device itself.

So I say: Both are possible with the distinction that a wrapper run on the device itself will stop working after a reboot/turning wireless off and on again or changing from normal to running silent and back again - essentially any change to the icon in the matrix will reset it to its proper appearance unless it's form is maintained by a deck through the master-slave function.

[Sabato Kuroi]

@Volker

Transys Avalon was on my sheet by mistake.The commlink is Erika Elite.Apologies for the inconvenience

[Volker]

Okay, thanks. That means I can more or less cover all the gear unless I have to reboot my deck or any of your devices, right?

Okay, thanks. I editet my post. I took care that the (what I think is) important gear is slaved to my deck, not to your Transys. Needlos to say, that I configure my deck to Firewall 6 for the moment.

[Volker]

Ah, something more:

In my IC post before I included what I deemed most important to my configuration, but in the end you have to decide what is important to you. If you want me to swap anything, please tell me OOC, and I will alter it in the IC post in order to speed things up.

@GM I think we can do the part where I'm the only one awake pretty fast. As long as nothing special happens, bnc will just sit and watch carefully, receive the invitations for the marks and go to come herself.

From tomorrow on for one week I will be on vacation. I can't tell how much I will be able to be online. HOnestly, I can't tell whether I will have internet access at all. I guess I will. If you don't hear from me within 48 hours, feel free to play bnc, Jack. I trust you. Anyway, I can only access the internet with my smartphone and won't have much time, so I will keep my posts as short as possible. Please don't be irritated if my posts are less elaborate for the next 7 days. Thanks

[Jack_Spade]

Ok, thanks for the notice. Have fun. 

[Volker]

Today, I'm still here and can post a lot. So i suggest we get to the point where everybody gets defrozen asap

[SquirrelDude]

Volker, your suggestions seem fine. I'm just going to suggest we grab some better commlinks in the future. Enjoy your vacation.

@GM; Is it possible to slave commlinks to each other, so that you could have a web that looked something like this? I'm guessing not, but I figured I should ask anyway.

Deck - Commlink A - Stuff + Commlink C - Stuff
          - Commlink B - Stuff